Performance of the Forward Drift Chambers for the DO detector

Author

Avery, R.E. ; Bantly, J. ; Blessing, S. ; Buchholz, Dirk ; Gobbi, B. ; Liu, Y. ; Rajagopalan, S.

Author_Institution

Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

25-31 Oct 1992

Firstpage

147

Abstract

The Forward Drift Chambers (FDCs) provided tracking in the forward region for the DOL experiment at Fermilab. Before being installed at DOL for the current Tevatron colliding beam run, these chambers were extensively tested in the Fermilab NW test beam, in beams of 10-150 GeV pions and electrons. The beam line was instrumented with proportional wire chambers to define the beam position, and with Cerenkov counters to select clean pions or electrons. Measurements included the position resolution, the hit finding efficiency, two-track resolution, and ionization measurement resolution. The tests have demonstrated that the chambers are able to perform the tasks for which they were designed

Keywords

position sensitive particle detectors; proportional counters; 10 to 150 GeV; Cerenkov counters; DO detector; Forward Drift Chambers; electrons; hit finding efficiency; ionization measurement resolution; pions; position resolution; two-track resolution; wire chambers; Counting circuits; Detectors; Electron beams; Instruments; Ionization; Mesons; Performance evaluation; Position measurement; Testing; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1992., Conference Record of the 1992 IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0884-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1992.301124

Filename

301124